Steven Wilson The Future Bites First Single

richardh wrote: I think the weird thing is that SW has NEVER been cutting edge. When I first heard Porcupine Tree in the late 90's I just was completely underwhelmed by his both his music and snooty attitude. Now all these years later I am getting a definite feeling of Deja Vu. HOWEVER for a while he was definitely in the 'essential' category , although perhaps just the 10 years 2004-2015 (basically In Absentia to Raven with maybe one 'mistep' with the Incident ) , IMO anyway. I probably won't bother with this latest album. As you said , who really want's this?

SteveG wrote: How does Wilson have the time to record an album? I thought he was remixing the entire Monkees discography.

Catcher10 wrote: SteveG wrote: How does Wilson have the time to record an album? I thought he was remixing the entire Monkees discography. As you know in today's recording world, digital, software and email/cloud servers have made "making" an album too easy.

True. It's writing the music and lyrics that's time consuming.

Dorsalia wrote: SteveG wrote: Catcher10 wrote: SteveG wrote: How does Wilson have the time to record an album? I thought he was remixing the entire Monkees discography. As you know in today's recording world, digital, software and email/cloud servers have made "making" an album too easy. True. It's writing the music and lyrics that's time consuming. By the way you guys talk I'm guessing you must have quite a bit of experience writing and recording music. You're clearly seasoned professionals.

And with this post, it's clear that you're not.  This is all rudimentary stuff that you can pick up from the internet.

Edited by SteveG - March 17 2020 at 07:31

Hi,

silverpot wrote: It sounds like an old ABBA song.

Edited by moshkito - March 23 2020 at 09:49

Prog-jester wrote: THE FUTURE BITES details available here The first single dropped yesterday, named after one of SW's favourite movies: Whatcha think? Loving it so far, but 5 mins would've been enough (the song doesn't really go anywhere past this mark, just repeats itself). The rest of the tracklist has shorter cuts though

Well shiver me timbers!
For the first time in quite a while I am genuinely looking forward to the new Steve Wilson album. Not that I overtly hate his most recent stuff, it’s actually pretty good, BUT I already own most of the PT catalogue plus a fair few of his solo albums...and yeah there comes a point where you simply gotta ask yourself whether you really do need more Wilson in the old collection.
Then again I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about his music. Personally I think this ‘change of direction’ in sound is very welcome...sure we’ve heard the shift towards art-pop on his previous blue man group effort ( ), but on here it seems to have blossomed into this interesting electronic venture. I still hear a musician having fun with what he’s doing...and that is damn rare when you’ve been doing this for over 30 years.
Kudos Steve

P.S. Nevermind the nay-sayers. You can of course just stroke them with the fur and continue to release ‘Raven revisited’ with mellotrons and the archetypical pork solo en masse...but how fun would that be...and who are you REALLY making music for in the end?
I thought so

Edited by Guldbamsen - March 23 2020 at 08:31

Guldbamsen wrote: Prog-jester wrote: THE FUTURE BITES details available here The first single dropped yesterday, named after one of SW's favourite movies: Whatcha think? Loving it so far, but 5 mins would've been enough (the song doesn't really go anywhere past this mark, just repeats itself). The rest of the tracklist has shorter cuts though Well shiver me timbers! For the first time in quite a while I am genuinely looking forward to the new Steve Wilson album. Not that I overtly hate his most recent stuff, it’s actually pretty good, BUT I already own most of the PT catalogue plus a fair few of his solo albums...and yeah there comes a point where you simply gotta ask yourself whether you really do need more Wilson in the old collection. Then again I can’t remember the last time I was this excited about his music. Personally I think this ‘change of direction’ in sound is very welcome...sure we’ve heard the shift towards art-pop on his previous blue man group effort ( ), but on here it seems to have blossomed into this interesting electronic venture. I still hear a musician having fun with what he’s doing...and that is damn rare when you’ve been doing this for over 30 years. Kudos Steve P.S. Nevermind the nay-sayers. You can of course just stroke them with the fur and continue to release ‘Raven revisited’ with mellotrons and the archetypical pork solo en masse...but how fun would that be...and who are you REALLY making music for in the end? I thought so

Edited by Catcher10 - April 22 2020 at 12:03

dougmcauliffe wrote: Breaking! According to SW on Instagram, the future bites has been delayed to January 2021. Mostly due to the fact he can’t shoot videos and there is an issue with production of the deluxe edition due to covid

The first four albums were all great for sure so I had this pre-ordered and was looking forward to it. So far this year I have a grand total of 2 new albums to listen to so it would have been welcome. BTW who dares say that prog should be 'fun'. Are you mad lol.